Digital Payments & Finance: Timor-Leste’s Central Bank and Cambodia’s National Bank signed an MoU to boost cross-border digital payment cooperation, including information sharing, joint research and training, and support for settling transactions in local currencies to help trade and investment. Health Systems & Tech: At the WHO South-East Asia meeting in Dili, member states adopted the Dili Declaration on Human Resources for Health and passed resolutions pushing equitable access to quality medical devices, diagnostics and assistive technologies, plus stronger health financing and TB action. Trade & Competitiveness: Timor-Leste’s commerce minister said ASEAN integration should build people and business capacity, attract quality investment, and shift exports toward higher value-added products, with e-commerce and better customs and connectivity highlighted as key. Agriculture Cooperation: India’s agriculture minister held bilateral talks with Timor-Leste on institutional mechanisms for agriculture research, technology and innovation, including support for food security. Marine Science: A new report says coral cover in the East Asian Seas (including Timor-Leste) has held steady over four decades despite global reef decline, pointing to possible heat-tolerant traits.